Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 17:11 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:02:16AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 15:45 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 10:11:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Wei Tang <tangwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > []
> > > > > WARNING: sizeof sig->rlim should be sizeof(sig->rlim)
> > []
> > > > If anyone feels strongly about accepting such patches, then the right solution is 
> > > > to create a Coccinelle semantic patch to run over the whole kernel and get over 
> > > > with the churn once and for all.
> > > 
> > > That, or a single patch taking that piece of idiocy out of checkpatch.pl...
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/11/103
> 
> Umm...  Matter of taste, really

On that I can agree.  Idiocy rather less so.